120 miles, 6 hours. Seems about right to me. Of course, when you’re taking roads like this:
20 miles per hour is a good rate of speed! We were fortunate enough to discover multiple alternates to highway 101, most of them directly along the coast, with excellent views and grand vistas of the Pacific Ocean.
Our travels took us by Patrick’s Point, so we stopped there to take some photos. All day the weather was close to perfect; sunny and in the high 60’s.
One of the alternate routes took us through some coastal redwoods. These magnificent trees were even larger than the ones we saw the day before. In one of the photos, you can see Sheryl inside the hollowed out base of one large tree, and in another I’m standing near the stump of a redwood tree that had fallen right across the road (you could see the top of the tree on the other side of the highway!) The final picture is a different view of the tree that Sheryl stood in.
The Best Western in Brookings Oregon is situated right on the coast, and our room has an excellent view of the beach and a nearby point which provided a nice backdrop for the sunset.
Written on 3Apr04; images added and entry posted on 6Apr04.